Blackguard has a female drummer. I'm not a fan, but I saw they weren't mentioned. I also don't see why it matters.

I answered this before, but perhaps you didnīt see it so iīll answer again. In my opinion it doesnīt matter musicwise a bit. Women arenīt worse or better. People are people making music. But in a scene (like most music scenes) where most of the musicians are men i find it interesting to see how many bands there are that actually have people that donīt define themselves as men in them. Iīve been asked before if I could name some metalbands with women in them and Iīve sadly said that i donīt know all that many. I see this as a "project" where I gain more knowledge of the metal scene as a whole.

And there is a factor of identification as well. If i only see men playing metal then the step to do the same for me feels larger than if i see that there is a variety in genders in bands.

This list has made me find a lot of bands that are great! Iīm happy too see so many contributors and so many bands. Some day soon you might also hear me lay the drums in a Post Mortem-isch band. Itīs gonna suck in the beginning of course but what the hey.